Businesses of Agriculture: MetaFarms

From the Businesses of Agriculture series

Kerry Hoffschneider
Jan 2, 2020
Jan 2, 2020 Updated Jun 25, 2020

MetaFarms volunteers — The MetaFarms team at Habitat for Humanity, one of its regular volunteer events.
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